[ale] Adaptech 1542

[Todd Graham Lewis]

On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Bing wrote:

> I have a Linux system with a scsi disk that was working fine until i changed
> the motherboard.  I now have a pentium PCI motherboard.  I am using the
> Adaptech 1542 scsi controller, the card is an isa card.  Now LILO loads
> the kernel off of the scsi drive just fine.  the problem is when the kernel
> starts to run: it seems to go into an infinite loop retrying a command to the
> scsi controller that keeps on timing out.  I have the PCI BIOS option in the
> kernel enabled.  I am using the 2.0.0 kernel.

You're on the right track mentioning PCI support in the kernel.  Though
you might have PCI BIOS support turned on, I suspect that this is where
your problems lie. 

Start recompiling and fiddling with all of the PCI options.  Also, check 
your IDE chipset and make sure you aren't being nabbed by one of the buggy 
chipset problems, the fixes for which have plagued 2.0.  If you are 
affected, then you should upgrade.  If you aren't affected, you should 
upgrade anyway.  If you're upgrading to 2.0.0, then you might as well do 
it right and go for the latest 2.0, which, last I checked, was 2.0.21.

Good luck.

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